Arena Rose Co.'s Catalog 2000 says: Beloved throughout France and making a comeback here in the U.S., American Pillar explodes each spring with a profusion of carmine-pink single blooms in huge clusters. A brushing of white at the base of the petals offsets a large eye of golden stamens...For clarification of parentage, see References. Recent references citiing 'Red Letter Day' as the pollen parent are probably mistaken. Red Letter Day was introduced in 1914, 16 years after Van Fleet bred this rose on a different continent.